Sample Sentences for
affluent
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    The more affluent chased their food with drugstore Coca-Cola in bulb-shaped soda glasses.  (source)
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    Robbers liked to frequent our area, where the more affluent lived.†  (source)
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    The work had been done by affluent whites, but Adler insisted that blacks had not been displaced.†  (source)
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    Her first stop was the Angelini pied—' a-terre, cozied in an affluent East Side neighborhood.†  (source)
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    Marin was overwhelmingly poor, all the more so in comparison to the sparkling affluence of San Francisco.†  (source)
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    Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a swamp.†  (source)
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    'Take a look, Chaplain,' Colonel Cathcart directed, screwing a cigarette into his holder and seating himself affluently in the swivel chair behind his desk.†  (source)
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    He'd grown up, I learned, in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., where he'd excelled academically and had been an elite athlete.†  (source)
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    He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.†  (source)
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    Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward, The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands, The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents, (I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,) The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha, Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors, The wars of Tamerlane, the reign of Aurungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Mosl†  (source)
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    Everyone agreed that my father, my Baba, had built the most beautiful house in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, a new and affluent neighborhood in the northern part of Kabul.†  (source)
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    In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.†  (source)
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    Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent.†  (source)
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